LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Arseniu Adelina-Teodora

Date: September 16, 2015
School: Scoala Spiru Haret, Bacau
Class: 4B
Level: Beginners, L1
Lesson: Having fun with animals!
Vocabulary: animals, animal sounds, descriptions
Type of lesson: Lesson of fixation of knowledge and of developing skills and abilities
Skills: speaking, writing, listening
Teaching methods: class discussion, presentation, reading aloud, gaming and simulation
Aids: handouts, animation video
Interaction: T-Ss, S-S
Aims:

to practice specific vocabulary;

to acquire new vocabulary;
to select and understand specific items from an exercise;
to develop speaking, writing and listening skills.

Objectives:
- cognitive
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

express preferences
talk about animals
name animals and animal sounds
describe animals

- affective
have fun with games and songs
increase English learning interest

Stage/step

Aims

Time

Warm-up

Check the
understanding of
previous lessons.

3-5

Revision

Arouse interest;
Activate schemata;

10-15

Tasks
(Teacher)
T checks homework;
T corrects any mistakes.

Interactio
n
T-Ss

Aids

T plays a short animation

video that shows different

T-Ss

Animation
Video -

Handout
Film

Develop listening skills.

Controlled
practice

Practice specific
vocabulary items;
Acquire new
vocabulary.

10

10

Free
practice

Acquire new
vocabulary;
Develop speaking
skills.

10

Assignment

Practice specific
vocabulary items;
Develop writing skills.

2-3

types of animals and the

sounds they make;
T asks questions about
animals and asks Ss to
reproduce the sounds they
have just heard.
T distributes handouts and
gives the instructions;
Exercise 1
T asks Ss to work in pairs and
complete the missing letters;
T asks Ss to match each
animal with an image; T
checks.
Exercise 2
T asks Ss to circle the correct
answer and match each
animal/object with a sound; T
checks; T writes any unknown
words on the blackboard.
T asks Ss to work in pairs and
match each animal card with a
specific set of adjectives; T
asks Ss to describe the animal
using the adjectives and add
their own.
My favourite animal T
asks Ss to describe their
favourite animal in five
sentences, using the new
vocabulary.

The anim
sounds

Handout
Animals
S-S

T-Ss

S-S

T-Ss

Cards
Animals